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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks

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